Highway Addressable Remote Transducer Protocol - Packet Structure

Packet Structure

The HART Packet has the following structure

Field Name Length (Bytes) Purpose
Preamble 5-20 Synchronization and Carrier Detect
Start Byte 1 Specifies Master Number
Address 1-5 Specifies slave, Specifies Master and Indicates Burst Mode
Command 1 Numerical Value for the command to be executed
Number of data bytes 1 Indicates the size of the Data Field
Status Master (0) Slave (2) Execution and Health Reply
Data 0-253 Data associated with the command
Checksum 1 XOR of all bytes from Start Byte to Last byte of Data

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